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Poetry as Open-Heart Surgery

Contains: Mothman

Polyphēmos

Devil You Know & Devil You Don’t

 

Costumes for stage performances

Mothman costume

Carpet Muncher

A surrealist feast of poetry and textile

Taxonomy shirt

© Lisa Black

Carpet Muncher at Paris Fringe 2026

A solo Spoken Word drag performance celebrating queer resistance to taxonomy. It brings the urban legend of the 'Mothman' to life, using vibrant surrealist costuming to explore themes of queer alienation, metamorphosis, cross-border solidarity and homoerotic hot-hub encounters.
This show invites you to face the pest in your closet. Is it hungry for light? More creature than human? Join this intimate, frenzied call to celebrate the unknowable within us all.

Mothman was sighted in Edinburgh, Dublin, Galway and Tralee

Eating the carpet out from under your feet

 

© Avril O’Sullivan

© Giulia Ferrando

© Carol Cummins

Polyphēmos

Commissioned by the Runoviikko Festival 2022, presented in Berlin and Paris

An emotional bestiary, from Icarus’ stray feathers to the Minotaur’s heart, in dialogue with Ancient Greek rhapsody.

Polyphēmos: "many-voiced”, “abounding in songs and legends"

unraveled yourself,

to be wrapped around his finger; stretched thin, pulled taught (…)

International guest performance at Runoviikko Festival 2022 in Turku, Finland

© Mariel Helovirta

practicing divination

in the peels of a moment stripped bare (…)

 

The Devil You Know and The Devil You Don’t

Satanic Panic! performance at Spoken Word Paris, 2023

A Faustian poetic ritual, aiming to summon the demon of inspiration through the means of sacrifice.

© Sabine Dundure

Tearaway mask, red velvet.

Drag performance at Dance To The Underground, Dublin, 2024

© Memphis Zuza

with the sharp edge

of your spoon,

you’ll break my fever (…)

Portrait of a Puppeteer

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